March 2011

01/04/2010

Rotate Drawing View

I am just getting back into the swing of things after a two week vacation for the Holidays and realized it’s been a while since I have posted last. I hope you all had a great New Years and look forward to a great year. Shortly before my vacation I received a question about rotating a drawing view so here it goes.

I build a simple part with a few angled faces and want to be able to create a drawing with a particular horizontal edge .

You will notice the top edge is close to horizontal although I want to rotate the entire drawing view to ensure it is at 0deg. In the browser right click on the drawing view you want to rotate and select Rotate.

Note: If Rotate is grayed out, you have a sketch overlaid on the view and it will block you from rotating the view.

From the Rotate View dialog you can select an edge to be Horizontal / Vertical or specify an Absolute / Relative angle for the view.